Lewinornis rufiventris waddelli Mathews

Pachycephalidae, Aegithalidae, Remizidae, Paridae, Sittidae, Neosittidae, Certhiidae, Rhabdornithidae, Climacteridae, Dicaeidae, Pardalotidae, Nectariniidae, And & Lecroy, Mary, 2010, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 8. Passeriformes:, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2010 (333), pp. 1-178 : 42

Lewinornis rufiventris waddelli Mathews

Lewinornis rufiventris waddelli Mathews, 1920: 244 (Warunda Creek, Eyre’s Peninsula, S.A.).

Now Pachycephala rufiventris rufiventris Latham, 1801 . See Mayr, 1967: 34, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 447–449, and Boles, 2007: 428.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 659223 , adult male, collected on Warunda Creek , 34.26S, 135.38E ( USBGN, 1957), Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia, on 27 August 1911, by S.A. White (no. 33). From the Mathews Collection (no. 9621) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews said only that the type was from Warunda Creek. Three S.A. White specimens from Warunda Creek came to AMNH with the Mathews Collection. AMNH 659223 bears a green Mathews type label with ‘‘ Pachycephala waddelli ’’ written in Mathews’ hand and his catalog number, a Mathews Collection label, and White’s field label. Because this is the specimen Mathews intended as his type specimen, I hereby designate AMNH 659223 the lectotype of Lewinornis rufiventris waddelli and have added an AMNH type label. The two additional specimens from Warunda Creek are paralectotypes: AMNH 659222 (Mathews no. 9637, White no. 63) adult male, 24 August 191l; and AMNH 659224 (9638, 75) female, 24 August 1911. An additional specimen was cataloged by Mathews as no. 9639, with data as for the lectotype. It is not clear whether Mathews cataloged the lectotype twice or whether he had a fourth specimen that did not come to AMNH.

White (1912) published the results of this expedition to the Eyre Peninsula and noted (on p. 1) that he had presented the entire collection to Mathews but did not say how many specimens of this species he collected. There are no specimens of this population in the S.A. White Collection at SAMA (P. Horton, personal commun.).